Hello Ivan,
Beautiful photo of this special butterfly for your area. You photographed it in excellent sharpness and details. Very nice colours with a fine contrasting background and shadows on the bark.
Regards,
Peter

Hi Ivan,for me it's like a "deja vu" a month after,it's nice to see finally a butterfly in your country too,great capture of the small tortoiseshell looking for the warm sun,perfect wings position for the best details everywhere and great exposure in this hard light too.Have a nice and warm weekend,Luciano

Mercifully, the spring has started showing its signs in your country, Ivan.
It is a splendid capture of a veteran Large Tortoiseshell basking on the bark of a tree.
Great for me too to be your neighbour on the gallery today!
Regards.
Ram

Hallo Ivan
Superb capture of this beautiful Large Tortoiseshell. The colours are well saturated,with lovely detail and patterns. Excellent sharp focus and details. It's very nice to see the eyes, body and antennas from above. Thanks for sharing. Best regards.
Anna

Comparing to last year, here also in Montréal area
spring came very late, excellent macro of this butterfly,
with fine POV to show its patterns, beautiful diffused light,
excellent focus, sharpness, and details, TFS

Bonjour Ivan,
Very fine picture of these rather rare butterfly which you have seen so well placed on a tree and with sunshine. I haven't seen this species this year, but I have to say with so few sunny days..there are not so much possibilities.
Have a nice Sunday
Amitiés
Anne

Hello Ivan,
I see the butterflies are out and about in Sweden, just like they are here in Ohio. I actually saw quite a few Cabbage Butterflies this afternoon as the weather warmed up to about 75 degrees F.
Love the super fine detail and vivid yet natural colors. It always amazes me how well these beautiful butterflies overwinter, even in the harshest of Winters.
Ron

Hello Ivan,
Truly a scarce sighting in your area as you notes reflect. Perfect POV of this Butterfly awakening to take it's flight to spread it's species. Clear detail and colors against the contradicting BG of the tree bark.
Best regards,
Carl
PS.
We as humans will have to get use to time changes and unexpected visitors to our respective areas due to climate change, part of evolution I suppose? I have seen bird species recently, only seen in our "Bushveld" (hotter) areas in the past, suddenly appear in the high-veld areas.
Best regards,
Carl

Hi Ivan,
Beautiful photo of the "Big Fox-Butterfly" (Hungarian name), a real sign of spring, which I never managed to photograph. :-( Interesting camera angle, unique PoV to see into his eyes face to face. Great composition with the visible shadows of his majesty. In my home country, Hungary this species was common in the past, now it's rather occasional and protected by the laws. Congrats for the nice shot.
Best regards, László